Here is a picture of Captain Biard with his
plaque acknowledging his selection as a Distinguished Alumni of North Dallas
High, partially for his work as a cryptanalyst-Japanese translator during WW2,
with the presenter, Jon Houp, and Noel Garland next to the Captain.

9/1/02 - (Reported by Noel Garland) Forrest is a
retired Naval Captain who lives in Highland Park, He will be 90 years
young this November, but is still active and alert. He has had a full and
eventful life, and finally is getting some recognition for his achievements in
life. More recognition is being sought both at North Dallas High, and in state
and national circles clear up to the White House. Recently he spoke at the
Pacific War Museum, known as the Nimitz, in Fredricksburg, Texas, and the next
week, was flown to Baltimore, Maryland to speak to the retired employees of
the National Security Agency at the Applied Physics Laboratory of John Hopkins
University, and tours of the National Cryptological Museum at
Fort Meade, Md, and the US Naval Academy. The picture of him below displays a
commemorative plate given him by the NSA group. He has been invited back to the
Nimitz to participate in a round table discussion on Allied-Japanese leaders in
WW2, because of his intimate knowledge of those individuals, some of whom he
worked for, or had met (MacArthur, Nimitz). Before the war, he and l7 other
military officers and their families studied the Japanese language in Tokyo for
almost 3 years, he managed to get that group out of Tokyo before being detained
by the Japanese military in August of l94l. He worked with or met with many of
the preeminent codebreakers of the US military (William Friedman, Frank Rowlett,
Joseph Rochefourt, Abraham Sinkov and others) during his almost five years as a
cryptanalyst-Japanese translator during the war. Graduating from the US Naval
Academy in l934, he also attended Ohio State University, getting a Masters and
some of his doctoral work in Nuclear Physics before being called back by the
Navy to attend the first A-H bomb tests in the Pacific. After his military
career, went to Cal Tech to study Astro Physics with seven extremely brilliant
people, some of whom later won Nobel Laureates in their field. He taught Physics
in California for twenty three years in various colleges before finally
retiring. Forrest usually can be found studying one of his avocations,
Japanese language, Japanese military or general history, among others, at the
Starbucks in Highland Park Shopping Center many mornings.